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westoelad wrote:

Durhamfootman wrote:

westoelad wrote:The 50 over competition is even more bizarre. The entire league fixture list is compressed into 18 days with Durham having to travel to the South or Wales on 4 occasions in 8days! The day after they complete the programme at home they have to be at Old Trafford the next day for a championship fixture. Ridiculous.

That is what squads are for, of course

I assume that's tongue in cheek but unfortunately we've got a very small squad.

even blooming smaller now and given that we are talking during the Test and lions season, smaller still

we might be lucky to field 11 players during the school holidays

D/L wrote:Given that we now alllow non-Yorkshire born players to play for Yorkshire, it is good news that we have captured the services of Finch, in all formats, for the coming season.

A masterstroke of a signing, especially when quality Overseas signings are difficult to attract due to the Twenty20 competition lasting 10 weeks rather than 5 weeks.

Counties will struggle to match such a high quality signature, this even surpasses Surrey's efforts in retaining the beloved and statistically inferior Kevin Pietersen.

Alviro Patterson wrote:

D/L wrote:Given that we now alllow non-Yorkshire born players to play for Yorkshire, it is good news that we have captured the services of Finch, in all formats, for the coming season.

A masterstroke of a signing, especially when quality Overseas signings are difficult to attract due to the Twenty20 competition lasting 10 weeks rather than 5 weeks.

Counties will struggle to match such a high quality signature, this even surpasses Surrey's efforts in retaining the beloved and statistically inferior Kevin Pietersen.

Are KP & Graeme Smith still best pals? Assuming Smith returns for year 2 of his 3 year deal I'm sure he will have great fun captaining one of his favourite characters

Sky haven't announced their live TV games yet as far as I am aware.

Unless I'm looking in the wrong place they're cutting it a bit fine.

Aidan11 wrote:Sky haven't announced their live TV games yet as far as I am aware.

Unless I'm looking in the wrong place they're cutting it a bit fine.

I've not checked Sky's website, but looking at the t20 fixture list on the BBC, I'd have thought it's pretty safe to assume that the random non-Friday t20s, where only one game is staged that particular day, are on Sky.

Aidan11 wrote:Sky haven't announced their live TV games yet as far as I am aware.

Unless I'm looking in the wrong place they're cutting it a bit fine.

They certainly are, could do with knowing what time the Lancs-Yorks T20 on 6th June as it's either 5pm, 6.30pm or 7pm.

Monday's Leicestershire v Derbyshire game has been postponed due to a player being involved in a serious road traffic accident.

The game has been re-scheduled

http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/articles/leic ... -postponed

Great that today we can back to what cricket's all about, let's hope for some tight exciting games.

The county season proper is back and it sort of feels like summer again.

Onions,Wood and Morley added to last CC side with Ben obviously excluded. Would it be too much of a risk to play both Bunny and Woody?

Aidan11 wrote:The county season proper is back and it sort of feels like summer again.

Hear hear!

Been glorious of late although Durham lost something like 500 overs to the weather at the start of the season.

The CC game between Notts & Yorkshire is live on Sky next week.

Beautiful weather in September and County Championship matches are played when most of the public are at work, the ECB should really schedule September matches over the weekend.